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Deaths from global food shortages “could be even greater than the lives lost in the war directly,” says UK minister

Staff Writer Posted on May 24, 2022

Deaths from global grain and food shortages due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine “could be even greater than the lives lost in the war directly,” UK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said Tuesday. Shapps said he is “very concerned” about the issue, and met with his Ukrainian counterpart Oleksandr Kubrakov last week in Germany to discuss […]

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Local groups report on the invasion in Ukraine

Staff Writer Posted on May 24, 2022

Russia has invaded Ukraine, and Ukrainian children need our help. Global Fund for Children’s Joseph Bednarek describes what he’s hearing from local organizations about the situation on the ground and how they are responding. I wrote an article for Global Fund for Children in 2014, after Russia’s first invasion of Ukraine. During that war, most […]

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Biden’s Taiwan comment hangs over summit with leaders of Japan, India and Australia on final day of Asia trip

Staff Writer Posted on May 24, 2022

As he concludes his debut tour of Asia, President Joe Biden is using Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to send an unmistakable message to China: a similar breach of international order would generate a fierce US response. Speaking to a high-level summit here of Indo-Pacific leaders, Biden underscored the grave consequences of a war that continues to grind […]